The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito Quotes

“Sara tried to stare through the blacked-out places in the letter but her eyes couldn't penetrate the censor's ink. Funny to think there was some stranger sitting in a musty office somewhere in England whose job it was to pore over other people's letters and decide if what had been written would help the enemy. Sara pictured a Nazi spy lurking in the shadows behind the Peterstone Post Office, waiting to steal her mother's letters for the vital information they contained.
"Ach so!" he'd mutter. "Ze Kats Domino no more liver has for his dinner to eat. Zis must mean ze war ze Chermans are winning!”
― Sheila Garrigue, The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito